Kitchen Garden Forum

Being a fresh air fiend, I always have my patio doors open and on Monday, I was tootling around the house, in my usual day-dreamy way, prior to going shopping. Finally ready, I closed the patio doors, drew the net curtain accross and went into the kitchen.
I almost jumped out of my skin when a right royal rumpus kicked off in the dining room. When I went to investigate, I almost fell over with shock, to find a large tabby cat going frantic, trying to get out of the closed patio door. It was leaping up in a flat panic, trying to find a way out and consequently, my net curtain is now a lot more lacy than it used to be.
When I approached , the cat shot off up the stairs! I was panicking then! Was it an un-neutered Tom??? Would it be spraying all over my bed rooms?? I finally managed to get the Fort Knox locks open, stood back and the cat flew down the stairs and out of the door.
So far, no cat pee smells!
I love cats but this one was a very unwelcome visitor!
Cheers.

nce on holiday in a gite in France a cat dashed in just as we were about to go out.

Firstly it shot up the chimney and sat on a ledge quite high up then when it eventually came down it shot upstairs into the bdedoom to hide under the bed.

Eventually we got it outside!

Dogs can be pretty daring too, on a camping holiday in france a dog grabbed a string of sausages out of the hot frying pan and ran off with them - we figured if it was that hungry it deserved to eat.and didnt give chase !

Dear Elaine, Tom cats wee normally takes a couple of days before it starts stinking.

Hi OH,
You are either and old rascal or you have something wrong with your sense of smell!
Tomcats Pee takes but moments in to reach my scent glands.
Fancy putting the wind up poor Elaine! Good wheeze though!
JB.

Dear OH......not in my experience it doesn't! Phew.....ugh! You were trying to wind me up, you divil, you!

Dear Elaine, bet you are going round the house sniffing just incase.

Yes, dear OH....I am!
I'm almost paranoid about having the door open....

My pal pointed out, that it was a good job the cat made to escape while I was still at home...goodness knows what I would have come back to, if I had gone out unaware it was in the house. Ye gods, it would have wrecked the place!
I can see the headlines now...

House devastated by cats frantic bid for freedom followed by Woman arrested for cat cruelty

Dear Elaine, of course i would have come and visited, if you had been sent to Woodhill in Milton Keynes.

Elaine - you had a lucky escape. A former work colleague of mine went away for a few days, not realising that the next door neighbour's cat had sneaked in before they locked up. They returned about four days later to find one frantic hungry cat which had shat everywhere, and neighbours who had plastered the nearby roads with lamp post posters about their missing pet.

Primrose....oh strewth. Imagine!...and I have done a lot of that since Monday! I pictured every net curtain shredded and of course, the obnoxious odour of tom cat.....and the poo. Lucky escape indeed. I shall never leave the patio doors open and go into another room again.
Cheers.

Hi Elaine,
Years ago I inadvertently trapped a cat in my greenhouse overnight and in the morning when I went to 'open up' the cat saw me and went ballistic.
It totally destroyed 12 Tomato plants and in a final bid for freedom leapt at the end of the greenhouse and shattered the glass and disappeared never to be seen again! I said 'Oh dear!' Well maybe something just a wee bit stronger!!!!! Since then I always have a screen door for ventilation so dear little pussycats cannot enter.
JB.

Primrose wrote:Elaine - you had a lucky escape. A former work colleague of mine went away for a few days, not realising that the next door neighbour's cat had sneaked in before they locked up. They returned about four days later to find one frantic hungry cat which had shat everywhere, and neighbours who had plastered the nearby roads with lamp post posters about their missing pet.

Much the same happened to a neighbour of mine, but he was living in the house and had no idea there was a cat living in there with him
The neighbours across the road lost their cat when their grandchildren came to stay and it apparently moved in with Derek who failed to notice it. It was only when he was walking up the garden and noticed a "large stuffed cat" on the spare bedoom window ledge that he found it. He thought it was an old kids toy and if the cat hadn't turned it's head... He claims the bedroom door had been closed for three or four days, but had no real idea. (I suggested he counted the c**p and divided by two); I have no idea how he didn't hear it!